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NEW DELHI: Government today again indicated its willingness to tweak the land bill, saying its top leadership is in touch with opposition parties and will consider suggestions coming from them. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters that the government had already said it was open to "well-meaning and practical" suggestions on the contentious issue. Citing letters written by Congress leaders and the then Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan against the land Act brought in by the UPA, he urged the opposition party to understand the practicality of the bill and support its passage.

NEW DELHI: Justice J S Verma committee, set up to recommend measures to improve laws dealing with sexual offences , has received around 80,000 suggestions and wrapped up its work within 29 days. Verma, the head of the three-member panel, was approached by the Central government for the task on December 23. The other members of the panel are former Himachal Pradesh Chief Justice Leila Seth and former Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam. He said the failure of governance was the root cause of crime against women.

NEW DELHI: Suggestions by the BJP with regard to Telangana bill are welcome and will be considered, senior Congress leader Jaipal Reddy said today amid demands by the main opposition for amendments to the proposed legislation. The Union Minister asserted that the powers to form States lies only with Parliament and whatever happened in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly will not have any binding on it. "Any suggestions from BJP are welcome... on the floor (of Parliament)

NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's advise to his ministers on use of social media, the country's largest border guarding force BSF, has asked its personnel to write emails or blogs about the problems and grievances faced by them. The first of its kind initiative for a 2.5-lakh strong force is aimed to connect the bordermen posted in far-flung areas with the higher echelons of the paramilitary force and its headquarters in the national capital. BSF chief D K Pathak, who initiated the plan by banking on the strong intranet facility of the force spread to the last border outpost, said suggestions and ideas have started trickling in the inboxes of the headquarters' servers here.

NEW DELHI: Concerned over the decline of India's share in specialised textiles and non-woven fabrics exports to the US, FICCI has submitted its recommendations to the Textiles Ministry , the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. "FICCI has suggestions for research and development (R&D)," Minister of State for Textiles Panabaaka Lakshmi said here. The chamber in its suggestions asked the government to adopt local/international innovative technologies as role models for the industries.

KOLKATA: The mines ministry has appealed to various stakeholders in the mining sector to give their inputs and suggestions to various provisions of the 9-page draft Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation ( MMDR ) Bill 2014, which has been put up on its website. The government is keen on introducing the Bill in the current Parliament session which ends on December 24 and is hopeful of starting the auctions within three months of the Bill becoming an Act. "We want to make it publicly acceptable and we would like to get your suggestions by December 10. However, so far we have not received much feedback ," Anup Kumar Pujari , union mines secretary said.

NEW DELHI: Accounting regulator ICAI today said it will submit to the government, its suggestions on the ways to deal with the menace of black money and retrieving illegal money stashed in tax havens and overseas banks by the end of August. "We (the Committee) have had our first meeting. Right now we are collecting information about Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty (DTAA), tax treaties, etc, on how they work. By August-end, we should be able to submit our report to the government," ICAI President G Ramaswamy said today.

AHMEDABAD: Rejecting suggestions by President Pratibha Patil to modify Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) Bill, the Modi government today re-introduced the bill which was passed by the State Assembly. The Bill was passed unanimously by the ruling party members when the Opposition has been boycotting the Assembly proceedings as their demand for debate on the recent hooch tragedy has not been accepted by Speaker Ashok Bhatt. "The suggestion made by the President should not be approved by the Assembly.

NEW DELHI: The Steel Ministry has invited suggestions from industry bodies including Ficci , CII and Assocham on duty structures for submitting them to the Finance Ministry for the 2013-14 Budget. "Ministry of Steel has initiated exercise for preparing the proposal for the Union Budget 2013-14. In this connection, it is requested that your proposals/ suggestions for making changes in the existing duty structure...," the Steel Ministry has recently written to 19 associations.

NEW DELHI: An expert committee headed by technocrat Sam Pitroda which was appointed by the government to review the functioning of Prasar Bharati has sought suggestions from the public on issues related to the national broadcaster. In a statement released here, the committee invited views from the public on aspects which it is reviewing. The panel's terms of reference include sustaining, strengthening and amplification of Prasar Bharati's role as a public broadcaster with a special reference to its relationship with government.